Contraceptives and Clerics don't mix, or why letting a pack of pedophiles set public health policy doesn't make sense

There's been a lot of controversy around contraceptive care and government mandated coverage for women in the past week or so. 

The Catholic Bishops' demand, as a "compromise to the Administration's proposals" is to remove any requirement for contraceptive coverage for all Americans and from all Insurance companies as discriminating against their religious freedoms. They say that to not do so is to discriminate against Roman Catholics.


Fine. I hereby propose that we should, as a "freedom of religion" based nation, ensure parity amongst religions on this issue.


First, in following the Church of Scientology's faith basis, all surgeries, and pharmaceutical coverage must be eliminated as violating their faith base. No longer will their faith be sullied by knowing that their followers are exposed to the potential of having their surgeries or drugs covered to address maladies, and the rest of us will follow suit to avoid any semblance  of persecution.  God will look after them and us. 


Second, no male doctor shall be able to collect for services rendered to a female patient in keeping with Islamic faith basis - we wouldn't want to violate their tenants would we? It would be discriminatory.


You can build upon this list ad nauseum but I think you get the point.

This is what happens when a secular society panders to clerics of a faith base - we get the Taliban in action. Studies show that 98% of Catholic women use contraceptives at some point in their lives - is this yet another case of misogynistic policies imposed on women by (in here) pedophiliac clerics? Even their own followers don't follow this policy, why would we impose it on the rest of Americans?

Please, stop this ridiculous return to the middle ages here in the US and get on to the real business of providing quality healthcare, at a reasonable cost, to all Americans.